Karl Ortmann

Friedrich Karl Ortmann (born March 28, 1859 in Düsseldorf , † November 1, 1914 in Koblenz ) was Lord Mayor of Koblenz and a member of the Prussian mansion from 1900 until his death in 1914 .

City map of Koblenz 1905

Ortmann had been working for the city of Koblenz since 1889. On October 13, 1900, the city council elected him to succeed Emil Schüller , initially as mayor. He received the title of Lord Mayor on August 9, 1904. During his term of office, the opening of the municipal festival hall (1901), the incorporation of Moselweiß (1902), the opening of the main train station (1902), the construction of the Protestant Christ Church (1904), the construction of the Prussian government building in the Rhine area (1905), the construction of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Realgymnasium (1907), the inauguration of the Barbara monument (1907), the construction of the Oberpostdirektion on Friedrich-Ebert-Ring (1907) and the construction of the building for the Prussian Higher Presidium of the Rhine Province (1910).

On the recommendation of the mayor, the newly founded Debeka settled in Koblenz in 1905 . The first zeppelin landed on the Karthauser in 1909. Ortmann bought the Residenzbad in Kastorpfaffenstrasse on November 16, 1911. Until the opening of the municipal swimming pool in 1965, it was the only way to swim in winter. In 1912 the first street cleaning company started operations in Koblenz. Ortmann died a short time after the outbreak of the First World War. He was buried in a grave of honor at the main cemetery in Koblenz .

literature

• Max Bär: From the history of the city of Koblenz. 1814–1914 .. Krabbensche Buchdruckerei, Koblenz 1922.
• Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. 2. revised u. exp. Edition. Publishing house for advertising papers, Mülheim-Kärlich 2005.
• Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
  • Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
  • Volume 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .